Catching up on my emails... In message <7376.1561672209@localhost>, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > Quite simply, all I would wish for would be something that would > -properly- > > convert -both- HTMLized emails -and- "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" > > emails (like this one I'm responding to) into good old fashioned ascii, > > at least for purposes of the "show" and "repl" commands. I have my > > jury-rigged solution working adequately well for the base64 encoding > > still, but only for the "show" command, which means that I have to do > > some manual cutting-and-pasting when/if I want to reply to a base64 > > encoded email. :-( > >I would also like that for the cases where I want to use show. I'm going to be trying the solution that was suggested to me... hopefully today. >I use mh-e, and I mostly have things configured right: > 1) use text/plain if it exists. Ummm... YEA! Gosh! I would hope so! > 2) format text/html is no text/plain > (3) but often text/plain is bullshit-pseudo-HTML and you need to avoid it. I do not have any understanding of your points (2) and (3). Could you elaborate? >The additional problem is that reply yanks text from formatted text/html >rather than text/plain. Yes, that's a problem. And it should most certainly get fixed. (My own crappy/broken solution that I slapped together with spit and bubble gum years ago did at least try to grab a text/plain section, when available.) >The good HTML formatters in mh-e (Emacs) are slow, >and the fast ones do a poor job. Are you saying that, for example, lynx does a crummy job? It's pretty fast. Does that mean it also produces crappy results? I have trouble believe that in this day and age, when we have had REALLY widespread use of HTML for around a couple of decades now, that there are still -zero- tools tyat can quicky render HTML into plain text without mucking it up somehow. Regards, rfg -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers